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At least 222 typefaces are named after places in the U.S. — and there’s still room for more.
In fact, the maximum human lifespan has barely changed since we arrived.
Even the most unorthodox posthumous plans have their own historical, spiritual, and scientific significance.
Welcome to the 13.8 relaunch, a new Big Think column led by physicists and friends Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser.
For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?
No. But Buddhism and quantum mechanics have much to teach each other.
Higher education, particularly for fields like filmmaking, is in big trouble when a world-class education can be found online cheaply or even for free.
On the largest scales, galaxies don’t simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don’t remain bound together.
Embracing signs of age might be the road to a longer life after all.
Americans lose an estimated 321 million work days every year due to anxiety and depression.
A new method could make holograms for virtual reality, 3D printing, and more. You can even run it can run on a smartphone.
As much as we say it’s not about the clothes, it’s still about the clothes.
Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein’s dream may have been a terrible mistake.
New experiments find weird quantum activity in supercold gas.
The chariot survived ancient eruptions and modern-day looters to become a part of the world heritage site.
If we are wreaking havoc on ourselves and the world, it is because we have become mesmerized by a mechanistic, reductionist way of thinking.
A new study explores the therapeutic potential of the psychedelic drug ibogaine, which has been used in Africa for centuries.
Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.
How long should one wait until an idea like string theory, seductive as it may be, is deemed unrealistic?
What can the beauty of autumn’s colors teach us about mortality?
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
‘Dorozoku’ map crowd-sources the whereabouts of noisy kids in Japan – but who’s being anti-social here, exactly?
Because of our ability to think about thinking, “the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape.”
A new study bases its calculations on more than the great white shark.
Viewing art that doesn’t look like anything makes your brain take extra steps to try and get it.
Take a journey through the maze of interpretations of one of the most famous paintings in history.
There’s a lot to get rid of if we want to get only our Universe out of String Theory. A lot of people, when they learn about String Theory for the […]
Developing an awareness of and an appreciation for science is what we all truly need, not what we’ve been doing.